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City planner presents three neighborhood-based middle-school zoning options to reduce long commutes
Summary
Tom Skaroska presented three preliminary, anonymized mapping options to move Revere from a lottery-based middle-school assignment to neighborhood zones; the models roughly double students living within a mile of school and reduce those living more than two miles away from 442 under the current model to under 100 in each option.
Tom Skaroska, Revere’s chief of planning and community development, told the school committee on Dec. 16 that moving from the district’s lottery-based middle-school assignment to neighborhood-based zones could substantially shorten students’ commutes.
"On average, amongst the three options we've looked at, it doubles the amount of students that are living within a mile of their school," Skaroska said, describing anonymized and slightly adjusted student-location data the district provided. He said the analyses reduced the number of middle-school students living more than two miles from school from 442 under the current lottery system to fewer than 100 in each modeled…
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